Congrats to AJR! 🌟 They are brilliant.
But I don't agree with their idealized portrayal of institutions in Western development
It is historically inaccurate, if not ideologized
Thus, not only do they struggle to explain China, they also can't explain why Western economies like the US prospered despite being as corrupt as China is today
Yuen Yuen Angx.comCongrats to AJR! 🌟 They are brilliant. But I don't agree with their idealized portrayal of institutions in Western development It is historically inaccurate, if not ideologized Thus, not only do they struggle to explain China, they also can't explain why Western economies like the US prospered despite being as corrupt as China is today
Corruption has shaped history. Why do we still ignore it? | Aeon Essays
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A book with just the right ambition to provide a vision for a different future that yet misses the moment.
My review of Abundance @ForeignPolicy. https://t.co/7XMSHkysBT
This is a good essay trying to make sense of Oliver Roy's somewhat odd book "The Crisis of Culture." I keep saying this, but it's difficult to make proclamations about the state of culture when the word "culture" means too many things at once.
https://t.co/gnrPoLXQuT
W. David Marxx.com